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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
-Proverb
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Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
-Yogi Berra
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
-Thomas Carlyle
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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.
-Marlene Dietrich
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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
-Gerald Early
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
-Epicurus
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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
-Fournier
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Applause waits on success.
-Benjamin Franklin
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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
-Erich Fromm
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
-Margaret Fuller
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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
-Jerry Garcia
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
-Joseph Heller
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
-Victor Hugo
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
-Aldous Huxley
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
-Immanuel Kant
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I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.
-John Keats
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
-Abraham Lincoln
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Whatever is popular deserves attention.
-James Mackintosh
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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
-David Mamet
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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
-Lord Mansfield
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
-Bette Midler
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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
-Wilson Mizner
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
-William Penn
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Books about Recognition
